# Administrator Guide

This guide assumes general knowledge of Linux systems, experience with the use of the command-line, editors and knowledge of the specifics of the target environment (i.e. whether or not sudo is used, if local system users or LDAP is used, etc.).

This guide does not discuss setting up the PowerDNS Authoritative Server with a database backend.

- Reference Architecture
  - Ports and communications
- Installation
  - Post-installation
- Configuration
  - Database configuration
  - Secret configuration
  - HTTP Service configuration
  - Scheduled Changes Deployment
  - Zones List Caching
  - Zones Overview DNSSEC Retrieval
  - Restriction of Zone Kinds
  - Advanced DNSSEC
  - Default NSEC3PARAM
  - Automatic PTR Creation
  - Zone Actions
  - Prometheus Metrics
  - Catalog Zone Support
  - Audit Logging to Standard Out or File
- Fronting with nginx
  - ZoneControl
  - PowerDNS Authoritative Server
- Managing ZoneControl
  - Controlling the ZoneControl service
  - Managing ZoneControl
- The ZoneControl API
  - ZoneControl Endpoints
  - ZoneControl Endpoints in the PowerDNS API
  - API Tokens
- Administrative Web Interface
  - Users and Groups
  - LDAP Authentication
  - Administrative Permissions for Staff users
  - Scheduled Changes
  - Roles
  - Servers
- Changelog
  - 1.6.0 (March 28, 2024)
  - 1.5.1 (November 1, 2023)
  - 1.5.0 (October 2, 2023)
  - 1.4.2 (May 19, 2023)
  - 1.4.1 (September 2, 2022)
  - 1.4.0 (March 10, 2022)
  - 1.3.4 (October 14, 2021)
  - 1.3.3 (July 09, 2021)
  - 1.3.2 (March 25, 2021)
  - 1.3.1 (January 21, 2021)
  - 1.3.0 (November 26, 2020)
  - 1.2.0 (June 15, 2020)
  - 1.1.1 (July 10, 2019)
  - 1.1.0 (June 24, 2019)
  - 1.0.1 (July 17, 2018)
  - 1.0.0 (September 20, 2017)